National Congress Party

The National Congress Party (NCP) is an Islamist political party in Sudan that was founded in 1992. The NCP was established by key political figures in the National Islamic Front, growing out of the Islamist student activism of the Muslim Brotherhood and passing through the same revolutionary Salafist and jihadist violence. The party supported Arab nationalism and sharia law, discriminating against animists and Christians in what is now South Sudan and Darfur. It was the ruling party in Sudan under Omar al-Bashir from the 1990s onwards.